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Psalm 8
Trinity Sunday A
Probably we don’t know enough about angels to know exactly what it means for the psalmist to suggest that we human being have been made “a little lower” than the angels. We have the sense in Scripture that angels are powerful in their own way. They do the will of God. They are messengers for…
Genesis 1:1-2:4a
Trinity Sunday A
Pastoral Need In Sunday school, you’d be invited to make a little booklet with one page for each day, a drawing of dark and light, earth and sky, dry land and seas, sun and moon, etc. And that’s how God made the whole thing — out of nothing — one day at a time. In…
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Pentecost A
Would it ruin anyone’s Pentecost if the Revised Common Lectionary had allowed Psalm 104:35a to be a part of this lection rather than coyly skipping over its line about wishing that evil and wicked people would vanish from the earth? And by itself, is that desire so terrible? Maybe it’s a luxury for people in…
Proverbs 8:22-31 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 22 The Lord created me [Wisdom] at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no…
Psalm 148 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Among the many tasks associated with science, both ancient and modern, is separating the world into its constituent parts and ordering their relationships. The periodic table of the elements and Linnaean taxonomy are two such examples of modern science. These have their ancient corollaries in such things as the Greek…
Psalm 29 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Psalm 29 is a Psalm about God, but it’s also about thunder and lightning. The word qol, the Hebrew word for voice, is also the word for thunder, and what Psalm 29 describes is clearly a thunderstorm. Seven times the phrase qol Yahweh, “the voice of the Lord”, thunders through…
Psalm 19:4 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Also see Psalm 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, 42:5, 44:24, 45:12 and 51:13; Jeremiah 51:25 and Zechariah 12:1. In the heavens [God] has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy, and like a strong man runs its course with joy. You stretch out…
Jeremiah 4:22-28 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.” I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone….
1 Kings 4:29-34 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 29 God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan…
Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:9-11 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Lev. 19: 19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials. Deut. 22:9-11 You shall not sow your vineyard…


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